“…One could speculate that such an action is consistent with known effects of ethanol to increase Renshaw cell activity, a neuron activated by cholinergic collaterals from motor neurons. It is also consonant with the rather old observation that ethanol and other alcohols potentiate ACh actions and antagonize neuromuscular block produced by tubocurarine (NELEMANS, 1962;SACHDEV et aI., 1963), as do catechol and certain phenols (HOBBIGER, 1952;RUMMEL and SCHMITZ, 1954;MOGEY and YOUNG, 1949;BLABER and GALLAGHER, 1971).…”